Our advocacy is being heard - Pack "Indépendents" proposed by LSAP
On 29th September, the Union des Indépendants met with the LSAP/ Ben Streff and his team to present the realities faced by the self-employed in Luxembourg. This week, the LSAP presented a package of 8 proposals for the self-employed and small businesses, and told us our exchange contributed to it.
Several of our demands are now on the table:
✅ Maternity and parental allowances fixed on the income before the leave, with no repayment demands years later
✅ Income replacement of 80% for the self-employed in times of crisis, like short-time work for employees
✅ Access to redeployment and ADEM support for those who must stop their business for health reasons
✅ Fairer rules on the Mutualité des employeurs
✅ Support and a fresh start for solo self-employed and micro-enterprises
We welcome this as an important step in the right direction towards making self-employment a fairer status. However, our top priority, reducing the 77-day waiting period before sickness benefit, is still missing. So are equal access to tax measures, the possibility for companies to pay the employer share of their founder’s social security contributions, and fairer access to unemployment benefits for independents.
With the government preparing its action plan for the self-employed, we will keep working with all political parties so that these proposals become real improvements.
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